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France In A Bleak Mood
Straits Times ^ | October 13, 2003 | Tamara Thiessen

Posted on 10/12/2003 4:25:50 PM PDT by Ex-Dem

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To: glaux
That's mighty ghoulish. So true though, unfortunately.
41 posted on 10/12/2003 5:13:19 PM PDT by Ex-Dem ("All your water are belong to us!" - MD to VA)
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To: Ex-Dem
France. It must be a bumber to be so sucky.
42 posted on 10/12/2003 5:15:16 PM PDT by ChadGore (Kakkate Koi!)
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To: Ex-Dem
And we Americans are to do what? Let em go right to hell! This is a country who just made a convicted cop killer a honor citizen of Paris. The faster the frogs slide into the manure pit the better.
43 posted on 10/12/2003 5:29:58 PM PDT by crz
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To: Ex-Dem
Not as ghoulish as thousands of French leaving their elderly in understaffed nursing homes while they enjoyed the August holiday.
44 posted on 10/12/2003 5:36:53 PM PDT by glaux
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To: Ex-Dem
Well....

it

looks

like

the

French

cornered

the

market

in

white

space

.

45 posted on 10/12/2003 6:01:49 PM PDT by spokeshave (Cancel the San Jose Merc and the one way truck to Nevada)
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To: Ex-Dem
a good start maybe if they all started speaking the language of business first.. English ;-)
46 posted on 10/12/2003 6:06:21 PM PDT by battousai (What's the only thing more irrelavent than a RAT presidential candidate?.....France of course.)
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To: null and void
bookmark
47 posted on 10/12/2003 6:09:22 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: DoctorMichael
Pride cometh before a fall

I think the proper saying is more like: "Pride Goeth...before an ass-kickin'"

48 posted on 10/12/2003 6:24:08 PM PDT by ctonious
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To: Ex-Dem
Yes it would!!!

I love the way that the stats are at the end of the article. We all should be assigned to memorize these numbers and what they mean.
49 posted on 10/12/2003 6:42:55 PM PDT by grapeape (Hope is not a method. - Gen. Hugh Shelton)
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To: ctonious
And now the extrodinar hot summer results in an abundant grape harvest which = a larger than normal wine output. So supply deflates prices which is bad enough. Worse, the US market is totally dead to a market of oversupply.

You could (but won't by a bottle of French wine for $2.50. Maybe this year they can turn their grapes in jam and sell it at roadside Stuckey's truckstops. F the French.

50 posted on 10/12/2003 6:44:52 PM PDT by Swanks
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To: Ex-Dem
Unemployment, constant public strikes and marginalisation in EU and the world have dented the morale of the French

La vie en rose ... if your rose is black!

51 posted on 10/12/2003 7:15:46 PM PDT by JCG
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To: facedown
"Hey france, have no fear your fearless leader, jock strap, will solve all your problems".
52 posted on 10/13/2003 2:20:31 AM PDT by chiefqc
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To: SamAdams76
California and Australia make far better (and cheaper) wine

Also Chile. Even Texas has some good wines.

53 posted on 10/13/2003 2:34:19 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: Ex-Dem
French lawyer, economist and historian Nicolas Baverez, in an essay entitled France is Falling, suggested that the social and economic degradation had been building up over at least 20 years.

That's charitable. I'd make it more like 60 years. Maybe a few hundred. (Churchill should have shot de Gaulle when he had the chance. I bet he considered it.)

54 posted on 10/13/2003 2:44:15 AM PDT by Stultis
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To: Ditter
I heard on the news yesterday that the unusually hot summer has fried the wine grapes this year.

Yes but the cheese and feet will be extraordinarily smelly this year.

55 posted on 10/13/2003 2:46:16 AM PDT by this_ol_patriot
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